On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 07:12, Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de> wrote: > Am 16.12.2011 04:24, schrieb TeLeMan: > >> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 05:32, Stefan Weil <s...@weilnetz.de> wrote: >>> >>> Since commit 1d14ffa97eacd3cb722271eaf6f093038396eac4 (in 2005), >>> QEMU applications on W32 don't use the default SDL compiler flags: >>> >>> Instead of a GUI application, a console application is created. >>> >>> This has disadvantages (there is always an empty console window) and >>> no obvious reason, so this patch removes the strange flag modification. >>> >>> The SDL GUI applications still can be run from a console window >>> and even send stdout and stderr to that console by setting environment >>> variable SDL_STDIO_REDIRECT=no. >> >> Did you test it? Windows GUI applications can not send stdout to the >> startup console window unless they create their own console window. > > > I did, but obviously not good enough: > > in an msys rxvt console the QEMU executables work as I wrote > in the commit message. So msys-rxvt and some other applications > (SciTE for example) allow running GUI applications with > stdio channels. > > The Windows command prompt (cmd.exe) is different, and so is > the normal MSYS console. Here console output does not work, > and I also noticed problems when running an emulation with > latest QEMU (application hangs). > > It seems to be difficult to get a solution which works for > several scenarios: > > * It should be possible to create a link which starts > an emulation with parameters and only one window (SDL, > no extra console window). This needs a GUI application > (or is it possible for a console application to suppress > or close the console window?). > > * It must be possible to see stdout and stderr output. > Default today: both are written to files in the program > directory. This is bad because normally users have no > write access there. It also does not allow running > more than one emulation with separated output. > > * It should be possible to get stdout and stderr directly > to the console. This is needed for running with curses, > and it is useful when asking for -help. > > * It must be possible to run QEMU executables from cmd.exe. > > * It should be possible to run QEMU executables from other > shells (msys command line, msys rxvt, cygwin command line, > ...). > > What would you suggest? Add a configure option and let users decide which one is better.
> Regards, > > Stefan Weil > >
